everybody in the Simpsons family has weird hair

• the last 6 digits in an Ontario "driver's licence number" refers to the driver's birthday
  (ie: "6 71224" would be in "y ymmdd" format). If the driver is female, a 5 is added to the 4th last number (ie: "6 76224").

• the web site to the "Centre for the Easily Amused" is at http://www2.islandnet.com/~cwalker/

• a full installation of CorelDRAW! 6 is 250 MB

• rural is a hard word to say over and over again

• Croqueland was the first edible book for children

• on any given day, if you are standing in a crowd of, oh... let's say, 1.825 trillion people, your risk of getting hit by a meteor increases dramatically

• some guy died when a swordfish jumped out of the water and hit him

• couch potatoes are more likely to exercise if their doctors write out the advice as if it were a prescription

• the Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index was develop by Mr. Schmidt, an Arizona entomologist, to rate the agony of venomous insect bites

• if you waste 15 minutes a day, you waste 90 hours in a year or 10 nine-hour working days

• memories dreged up by odours feel more vivid and emotional than those brought on by sights and sounds

Courney Cox is 5"5' and weighs 110 lbs.

• within a few years, the US Power Rangers will have to make its own robot/monster fighting sequences, since they are running out of Japanese footage of rubber monsters

• they already ran out of the Japanese footage for the 2nd Japanese version of the Rangers

• they already used the 3rd version of the Japanese Rangers when they showed the Aqua Rangers

• they are now using the 1st version of the Japanese Ranger in Power Rangers Zeo (as in "Zero"; as in "Alpha")

• the acronym TLA stands for Three Letter Acronym

• the number of Heimlich maneuvers that the inventor of the life-saving procedure, 76-year-old Henry Heimlich, has a chance to use in an emergency is 0

• before being the Bloc Quebecois leader, Lucien Buchard was the Environmental Minister of Canada

The word "I'm" is in the song Hand In My Pocket by Alanis Morisette 34 times

• if you get an acid in your eye, you shouldn't put base in your eye to neutralize it

• Ontario is the only province to get the kid's show Polka Dot Door

• the website for the Vampire Pig home page is at http://clever.net/moonlight/mp/pig.html

• kayak spelled backwards is kayak

• woodpeckers don't get headaches

• Honda somehow got the acronym VTEC out of Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control

• Hyundai's mid-size sedan, the Sonata, means "Uninteresting" in Korean

• Elvis is an anagram of lives and evils

• Injecting ground-up black widow spiders into your bloodstream gives you severe muscle pain, cramping, headache, blood pressure of 188 over 108, pulse rate of 188 and wheezing.

• the guy who invented the suit went insane and died in a French prison wearing rags

• Some local tabloid headlines:

  · 'I was Queen Elizabeth's love slave' (Weekly World News)

  · Was the Duchess of Windsor really a man? (National Examiner)

  · Tidy burglar cleans up house (National Enquirer)

• Napoleon is the second most portrayed character in the movies with 194 tallies

Dan Castellaneta, the person who does the voice of Homer Simpson, was on the Superbowl episode of Friends. He played the Zoo Keeper that told Ross about Marcel the Monkey.

• the state flower of Florida is the Orange

• Randy Garner didn't sleep for 264 hours. On the fourth day, he thought a signpost was a person. The 17-year-old also thought he was a famous black football player and "began to show resentment and anger about what he thought were racist statements about his ability as a football player."

• there is only one zoologist in the world specializing in the anatomy and classification of cockroaches

• Seattle college student, John Leonard, and 5 investors put up $700,008.50 to buy enough "Pepsi Stuff" points for the Harrier fighter jet offered in its advertisement. Pepsi returned Mr. Leonard's cheque.

• eating the typical U.S. diet puts the average individual at risk of consuming, over a lifetime, 5,000 to 7,000 pounds of pure fat

• an estimated 12 millions words will be translated by the Games Language Service Staff

• the code to get out of the jail in the movie The Running Man, starring Arnold Schwartzenegger is 653-9X.

• wherever you are, you're never more than 3 feet from a spider

• spiders spit digestive enzymes onto their prey to break down body tissue, so they can ingest the nutritious liquid.

• during World War II, special spider farms were set up.

• some spiders have been know to eat small birds.

• you can't tickle yourself

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